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Here’s my guess. Everyone is angry and frustrated. I know (second hand) that offense and defense were at each other’s throats on the plane home after the KC loss last year. I wonder if some of that animus has carried over into this year, especially when the offense screwed up last week’s game and the D couldn’t close the door yesterday. And, on top of that, we’re at a point where we have a $17m corner who inexplicably isn’t playing, a WR2 who is out to lunch this year, a mouthy slot receiver who just isn’t cutting it, a franchise QB who is snake bit right now, a bunch of dudes on D (Poyer and Edmunds, specifically) who probably look at White and shake their heads and then wonder why Miller got paid when they won’t. Add in another catastrophic loss that could be attributed in part to coaching (that’s not where my blame lies, but I can see how some would put it there) and this is probably not a very happy day at One Bills Drive. The solution to all of this, of course, is winning.

Yes. This. Lewis was terrible today. It’s a huge issue.

Me too. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him there a bit this week. I suspect we’ll see a few new wrinkles if Keemun plays. 2RBs might be one of them. (As will, I suspect, some tight line splits like we had against KC and NO in the regular season last year.)

Oddly, based on the wrap we saw on Friday, I do. I'm wondering if this is more of a nerve issue (pain tolerance/grip ability) than it is an ulnar issue. The guess here is that the UCL checked out relatively clean (at least less significant than the 2018 injury) and the problem relates to a nerve impingement, which in turn affects a couple of fingers and grip ability. Just a(n unfounded) guess, though.

True. But I think we'll see Barkley elevated either way as part of the subterfuge. They can always elevate him and then make him inactive on Sunday if he's not needed.

It’s a party in NYS. And I totally agree with you if you’re suggesting that today’s Republican Party is not conservative.

Can you prove it was insecure, and that any such insecurity affected the result?

You’re entitled to all of these views. But they aren’t winning elections. So the R question now is to move to the middle or to double down on this stuff. This was the best environment for Rs in maybe decades and what did they get? Maybe marginal control of the House, a basically deadlocked Senate and, at least where I live, status quo despite scads of money spent on mailers, etc.

Yes. Saw him voting around 11a.

For what it’s worth, McD was in a pretty good mood when he was out and about this morning. So there’s that.

Can and will is not does. That’s the problem.

I’m OK with Elam and Benford is a revelation. But, otherwise I agree with you. Cook and Bernard are useless. The Araiza situation nearly submarined the season. Shakir has promise, but . . . It doesn’t translate to the field yet. Spector is a JAG, and Tenuta wasn’t even a JAG.

We’’re all living and dying with this. Myself included. But I thought McD was pretty light in the presser. Not what I would expect if preliminary analysis was devastating. The Rapaport report probably is right. Somebody in team PR likely fed it to him. Happens all the time in exchange for help with other stuff later. I can’t believe an athlete with a $250m contract wouldn’t be able to cut the line and have an MRI (and have it read) within 24 hours of the incident. So I suspect that they’ve had the MRI done and read, and that McD is playing a little loose with this one to make the Vikings prep for Allen and Keenum on Sunday. I won’t feel good until I see Allen on the field on Sunday. But I feel better than I did an hour ago.

So is Rule #1. Or is it Rule #2. Whatever. Show your work, DoQ.

It’s always after the bye or a break. He’s a rhythm guy and he typically comes back slowly out of the break. This is different, though. Too many uncharacteristic decisions.

Don’t forget the throw over the middle that was a mess. It’s not about the accuracy. It’s about the decision making. And, right now, it’s bad. Concussions are funny things. Whether it’s a concussion or something else, he is way off right now.

Honestly, from an immediate football perspective I’m more worried about the elbow than the concussion. I will not be surprised to see Keenum next week. He’s off. The double-clutching, the awful interceptions, frankly the touch throw to Kumerow that he missed that would have ended the GB game . . . He’s just not right. And I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he was concussed against GB.

I think I started this in a different thread. I wondered about it in the second half of the GB game, and I still wonder about it following the Jets game. Bottom line here is that something is up. Maybe he was concussed on the shot in the GB game. Maybe he had a COVID booster and it’s screwed him up. (I had vertigo after my most recent booster and for a couple of weeks thereafter I felt like I just wanted my brain back. It was horrible, and I can’t imagine anyone with those side effects trying to play professional football.) I don’t know. But he’s not right. Without any care in the world for football I hope he’s OK. He’s one of us.

That’s part of why I think something happened. Tried to laugh it off. But I’m just saying: that was one powerful collision. And the way he played in the second half against GB and today lends itself tot the idea that something happened. He hurt the shoulder against the raiders. That injury affect accuracy. Whatever’s goin on here seems mental. It’s so out of character for him.

It was right in front of me and it was loud. I thought he was concussed on that hit.

For what it’s worth I really think he was concussed against GB. It would explain a lot.

Hoax. Self-victimization is unbecoming, FYI. The special master was a delay tactic. Frankly it wasn’t needed in a situation such as that one. The DOJ (and other investigatory agencies) typically set up “curtains” to ensure that anything that might be privileged is sifted from documents that could be evidence and that are forwarded to prosecutors. Say, for sake of argument, that the FBI is right and that it seized from Mar-a-Lago docs related to national security. There’s no reason to diddle around with a special master to ensure that something that might be privileged (a letter between Trump and counsel) or immaterial (a receipt for a hamburger at Five Guys) isn’t reviewed by the FBI. Time is of the essence. The same arguably goes with the prosecution, too. Justice delayed is justice denied. No reason to wait around for a special master who might work two hours a day to go through thousands of documents. It was a smart tactical move by Trump’s attorneys that ultimately backfired (or, at least, didn’t work out as planned).

Like everything else in todays society too many people treat this issue as black and white. It’s not. It’s gray. I completely agree with you about the dangers of cash bail in certain scenarios. I also question the wisdom of precluding bail in other instances. As you’ve noted, this isn’t a “one or the other” situation. But unfortunately too many people see it that way.

innocent until proven guilty.

Good point. It’s Paul pelosi’s fault he was assaulted because he didn’t have a shotgun handy to go all Dick Cheney on his attacker. Hoax.